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,1. FOR EDUCATION

i The people of thil Province will than in the satisfaction of Hon. Dr. MacMillan, Minister of Educa- tion, and his colleagues in the ltewsrtCovez-nment over the re- ception yesterday of a cheque from the Carnegie Foundation repre- mnting. in Canadian funds, nearly $88,000. Had not the claims of the Province been so convincingly pre- sented the Carnegie officials might well have considered the unusual exchange situation, and deducted the difference between American and Canadian funds when for- warding their cheque for the $75,- 000 voted as an endowment fund for a chair of Economics and So- biology. But they generously made the full amount payable in Am- erican funds, thus providing a sur- plus in Canadian money of over 012.000.

The fact that the grant will be lvailablg for instruction both m Prince of ivalea College and St. Dunstan! University enhances its Value educationally, and mama u. ford satisfaction to all concerned.

Bremen censratuistioi-is are due HUD. Dr. Maclvlillan. his govern- Imfll ¢°119B8l1ee and education officials on their eflortsinobtairung "11! mB-Krilficent sum, which will mean so much to the youth of this Province for all to QQmQ’

A BUBBLE’ BURSTS

News from New York that Coi- umbia University has brgkgn Wm, 3W1?“ 5w", Provhet or TQCIIIlOC- T3433‘. and that Scott's chief disciples have deserted him, marks the firs; crash of a movement which seamgd for a time m. leading m g MW economic cult; or religion. Bursting "PM this continent last August as a research movement which had re. vealed a compl€t§ breakdown of modern iiidustriaiism,.wlth no hope h!‘ "COVEW without a revolution in methods, Tcchnocracy ran a be- Wfldefifl! course of extraordinary acceptance. Bankers, economists, llvubliclsis, editors, all began talking or studying the ciccd, which, ac- cording to its sponsors, l\'0i1ld com- pletely illuminate and solve all the problems of a sorely stricken world.

Fantastic as was this proposition, says the Ottawa Journal, it all but Went the United Statas. "Tech- nocracy" fairly leaped to the lips of everybody. Bankers like Nov York's Vandcrlip, magazines like Alfred E. Smiths New Outlook, com-

Raymond, writing in the New York Herald-Tribune, showed thlt Scott. instead of being one of the "chief technicians" of Muscle Shoals. was really a cement-mixer there, and that he was not an engineer: and Will lingers rose to remark that Technocracy would "go out u flat as Eskimo pies or miniature golf." But the real collapse of Techno- cracy came when Scott emerged one night to explain it over a national radio hookup. More than 400 of New York's capitalists, bankers, in- dustrialists and economists crowd- ed the fashionable Hotel Pierre in hear him expound his doctrines. The speech failed dismnlly. Those who heard it must have been amazed at the jerky, rambling, confused man- ner in which Scott, with uncultured voice and desperate grammar, sought to tell what he was driving at. At times almost incoherent, he never got beyond gencralit-ies, and in the end, as if conscious of his own failure. he took refuge in the statement: "We don't have loans- wer our critim: time will tell."

It was the doom of Teohnocrany. A few days later Nicholas Min-ray Butler, president of L lilmlbis, dis- svowed any connection between the movement and his university, said that it had only housed the groupas part of its unemployment relief Pfotram. Finally, on Saturday last, an offlcial state lb all. ouneed that Columbia would in future carry on its own engineering races-ch work, and that four of the eight members of the committee on Technocracy had broken with Howard Scott. Thus ends a movement which, in many ways, illustrated in an extra- ordinary manner the extent to which peoples may be imposed upon by cults offering economic salvation. Howard Scott, it is now fairly clear. is an uneducated, unscientific, al- most ridiculous adventurer. Yet be- cause he had mastered a sort of scientific gibberish, and could mum- bie phrases about "energy determin- ants" and the "units of force," and so on and so forth, he could become within a few months a. world figure, iionlud by bunkers and economists. ‘Not often, concludes the Ottawa Journal, has there been a. more re- markable vindicatlon of Barnum’: ilrimortal dictum. ’

TIMELY SUGGESTION

A New Brunswick exchange sounds a timely warning when it says that every day Parliament is in session increases the cost of government. Opposition members, particularly

edians like Will Rogers and Eddie Cantor, oiihcl‘ preached or talked about it; there was oven a Tech- nocracy live-stop, and, in the words 0i one commciitnioi", the Uniicd States went "tccliiiocrazy."

Then something happened. John II. Van Dcvciitcr, editor of The Iron Age, challenged the Techno- crats "to submit to a recognized statistical and fact-finding body their supporting data for predictions of Social collapse unless certain changes are made." The challenge was declined. Then, in the New York Times Simeon Sirunskyr, well known economist and writer, made an ex- haustive analysis of 'l‘cchnocracy's claims, cnmc to the conclusion that its statistics were highly inflated. Virgil Jilrdvll. of the United States

-Na.tional Industrial Board, assail- ed the doctrine us u "pompous sup- crsitlofl." and nppcnlcd t0 engineers to protect the goixl name of their profession" from tlic "visions oi econ- omic oracles ivho oflcr us ‘electric dollars,’ and the intellectual terror- ists who proclaim the Tcclinocrack of doom." Others joined in the attack. John MacRao, president 0f B. P. Diitton d: Co., accused How- ard Scott of s-iealng his incta from Professor Frederick Sammy's “Wealth, fill-IN Wealth and Debbi’ Allan

those who are inclined to be voiuble, should paste this warning where they can read it every day before taking their seats. There is no reason why the taxpayfl/srs‘ money should be wasted at the present critical juncture by lengthy partisan spearh- making. The Opposition has an im- portant function to discharge, and the responsibility of keeping Han» ard within madabk limits devolves mainly upon them. One need only go through the pages of Hansard covering the endless reiteration and

carping criticism. of Opposition

speakers on the Imperial Confer-

ence agreements to realize the sav-

ing thai, could be dlcicd if those

speakers had simply confined them-

selves to the issues,

EDITORIAL NOTES

"There is a general impress-ion throughout the rest of Canada," says the Montreal Star, "that the Mari- time Provinces are standing up to the depression as well as any part of the continent. Nova Scotlals lat- est showing will fortify this im- pression. And it shows the rest of Canada that government costs can be cut, even when social services are maintained at a high level." _

try to get the United States to lend s nickel for another war. The best guarantee against the future war is lack of money. Nations may spend hundmds of millions on prepara- tions, but when a big war comes the cos; mounts up so rapidly that the military machine soon becomes like an automobile without fuel. There is no money anywhere nowadays for a real war.

Awvrllillg to a report by the pro- vincinl minister of health in Ontario there were 3,800 deaths from cancer in that province last year. The most terrible and most mysterbul of the common diseases‘ has now moved up to second place in the list of killers in Ontario-second only to the widely inclusive series of the commoner diseases has now them all says the report. As to pre- vention the report suggests periodic medical examination as the only hope for its cure is in treatment dur ing its incipient stages. The report shows the beneficial effects of antl- ioxin in the treatment of iphther- is. There were only 100 deaths alto- gether from this disease in Ontario last year, a proud record. "But," says the report, “the universal use 0i diptherln toxoid would soon have the effect of wiping out diptheria altogether.‘ It will be remembered that a short time ago this progres- sive public servant made the strik- ing statement that wherever a death from diptheria occurred somebody should be indicated for manslaught- er. an arresting way of pointing out that dlptheria is a wholly control- lable disease. Other provinces would do well to make s. note of these find- 11185.

The American Library Association Convention reports that stenograph- era, waiters, clerks and factory work- ers are reading more "deep" books than their employers. Whereas the latter, if they read at all, get dc- tective or adventure stories, the for- mer borrow the better class of book. Waitrsssu, hosiery clerks, and beauty parlour operators read more classics than women business ‘exec- utives or the wives of pi-‘essionai men. College-trained people are not holdifls up their borrowing average. The day labourer, the bus boy, the soda clerk, the street car conductor. the clerical workers-all these read more andibettor books than the lawyers, doctors, ministers and oth- er college-trained and Prviefsionnl people.

Are the Japanese, asks Economist, intending to occupy not only Jehol but Peiping? Their intention may be to cap their erection of tbs pup- pet Governmcnt of Manchukuo by setting up a puppet Government of China. in the former Imperial cap- ital in order that the one pirppct may receive recognition fmm the other. This monstrous farce has surely now been played beyond the limits even of League tolerance.

Whether the Conference meets or not, says the contemporary Review, this monstrosity of the Great War is now clearly at; an end. No political force can longer keep it going. N0 more political debt payments will be made. If the politicians 0f the world cannot agree to lower tariffs and thus to remove a gigantic bar- rier to trade; if the United States and France canno agree to unloosen their hoards pf gold which make the working of the gold standard impossible; then the wit of man and his innate resource for acclim- atlzlng himself to any conditions will force him to resume his normal work in spite of the politicians and their tariffs and without the help 01 the gold standard; and experience suggests that he will succeed in do- ing so.

The doctrlnaire, says Truth. Lon- don, has been the blight upon the Liberal Party from the day 0f those ice-bound intellectuals, Bentham and the Mills. It is for this reason chiefly that Liberalism, msufllcieht- iy rooted in the common earth, is withering away. The typical Liberal understands mankind, but not the individual man, as Gladstone con- fessed concerning himself. The Lib- eral doctrinaires have mostly taken refuge in the Labour Party. which they are doing their best to bam- boozle, with ahstractiulls- Fortun- ately for themselves, the workers distrust the doctrlnaires who are trying to make a, political living out of their simplicity.

~A hill in the Quebec Legislature has been introduced requiring a cash payment of 50 pcr cent on luxuries bought under the install- ment plan, and providng that filter an article has been acquired and half paid for, the vendor shall lor- feit his lien iipon it. The installment

, plan of 120% f0!‘ weds baa be!!!

run CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

The Russian Gold Brickp

(1119 Montreal Star)

Mr. Bennett's opponents who imagined that they had him 119°“ e the horns of-a Russian dilemma received a rude shock in Parlil-Iueflt when the Prime lilinisberloffered a complete and thorouilhii’ "W- fsotory explanation of his ‘Government's attitude tovi-ards the much- touted catile-for-oii deal. ‘

1n the first place, the Bennett Government did not scuttle any proposal which might bring advantage to the Canadian farmer. It merely asked Mr. G. G. Serkau, of Winnipeg, head of the self- sppointed Canadian Iyridicate which has taken it upon itself to negotiate a deal with the Soviet, for some definite statement that the Soviet Government was desirous of entering into trade on the basis outlined. This question was put on December 23. No answer has been received yet. So far, all the Government has been offered are certain notes embodying Mr. Berkauk ideas of what the terms should be, without one jot or Little of evidence to show that the Russian Government takes Mr. Serkau seriously.

Nor are Mr. Serkauk terms likely to attract any Canadian Gov- ernment. There is a question of importing ytumian anthracite. That would require removing ihn embargo upon Russian coal and admit- ting it to competit‘ with British coal entering this market-an obvious impossibility. Then there are difficulties in financing. The Canadian Government is invited to guarantee Russian bonds pay- able In 1935 to the tune of $4,000,000 maximum. At the same time the Dominion is invited to protect the Canadian sellers of cattle or their banks, against breach of contract by the Russian Governmenb-an amazing proposal.

Careful bankers, as Mr. Serkau admits, would require some u- surance that the Soviet would accept the cargoes of cattle sent and deliver the exchange cargoes of oil and coal. Mr. Bennett, it seems, is to play Fairy Godmother at both ends. His reply is succinct: “I think this House will Hive that no Canadian Government would seriously consider a proposal to provide credit facilities for a syn- dicate of vendors and. at the same time guarantee that the alleged purchasers, the Soviet Government, would discharge its obligation to' the vendors."

It will be noticed that Mr. Bennett has not put his foot down on all barter with Russia. The embargo on those Russian products which might depress Canadian standards remains. But, as in the csae of the oil-for-aiumlnum deal, the Government has kept “hands 01!," so‘ long as the national interest is not impaired.

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“WHAT aromas uavn YOU?"

What riches have you that you deem me poor, 0r what large comfort that you call

MANY UNNECESSARKDEATHS m‘ "i4? FROM AyPENDwI-rls Tell me what makes you so exceed- ing glad. II sour earth nanny or your heaven I am Just wondering‘ what our m"? druggista would have to say if every I hope ‘or henna’ m“ u“ “"1 time they sold a bottle of castor. endure oil, a. package of Epsom Salts. or And bu“: such tum" u m“ "lb other purgative medicines, the I kn ‘n hm‘ health authorities required that °w m’ 45”” “w” '° "l" they ask the buyer it the person me m‘ ‘ [or whom the medicine was pup I need no brighter love to keep me chased had any abdominal pain. pure‘ Y” m some places the pharmb To me the ‘faiths of old are daily ists have been warned not to sell bread’ any purgatlve medicine toipatients I bleamtheir how‘ I bu“ “m” “m save,

without asking if "abdominal pain"

is presemh And my deep heart still, meme

what they said, ‘

Naturally when a pain in the Ii’- mflkes me happy that the soul is

stomach or abdomen occurs, the bill/e. "

first thought is to use some medi- And. beins so much irinsman to the

cine to clear out whatever is caus- dead. ~.

in; the pain, I walk contented to the peopled While this looks like good sense, EPW9-

nearly everybody should know by this time that a pain in the stom- ach which “shifts down toward the right side of the abdomen and stays there" ia usually appendicitis. And everybody should also know by this time that this purgativc given when the pain is due to appendici- tis causes death in the majority of cases. Dr. J. O. Bower tells us "the two great causes of death in ap- pendicitis are delay and purgativea; out of 131 cases of peritonitis, all but 'I had been given a purgatlve."

Therefore we sec in Philadelphia in addition to the usual “Safety First,” "Stop, Look and Listen", such signs regarding appendicitis as “In the presence of abdominal pain give nothing by mouth," "Never give a laxative", "Apply an ice bag to the abdomen’, "Cnli your family physician", “Abdominal pain that persists for more than six hours is usually dangerous."

In regard to the danger of delay in operating in acute cases of ap- pendicitis, the following figures tell their own story.

“Of i643 cases admitted to hos- pital within 24 hours less than 3 per cent died."

“Of 1648 cases admitted within 24 to 48 hours about 6 pcr cent died."

"Of B28 cases admitted within 4B to 72 hours nearly 9 per cent died." "Of 896 cases admitted after 72 hours about 12 per cent died."

Dr. Bower publishes an investi- gation of the results of appendicitis in twenty-seven hospitals in Phil- adelphia and shows that the clan- gerous condition, peritonitis (in- nomination of the covering of the lnicstine itself) was present in, nearly half the cases befoic they were admitted in hospital.

Two things tn remember: nu food or purgatives; call physician if pain

persists 6 hours.

the active and effective hniidiiiaidl on f0 the credit system for years and has latterly become so wide- slxrciid as to suggest the need 0f 5Clllf' such check as that oIOiIO-‘vfld at Quebec,

—George Santayana.

C0olidge’s Will

(J. V. McAree in the Mall and Empire)

The late Calvin Coolidge in his: lifetime acquired a, wholly undeserv- ed roputatlon for sentcntiousneaa. As a matter of fact he win a. cop- wlw sneaker and his published ifpcechcs and messages had a word- agc much above that of the aver- age President. In private convgf- sation he said little, for hp was awkward and had little aptitude for the art. l-lls will was published a short time ago and excited wonder- ing gasps at its terseness, for it contained but thirteen words. We re- marked that he had used six super- fluous words. Immediately wc were assailed in the corrcspo deuce col- umns, several readers pointing out that the six words were essential. The will reads: "Not unmindful of my son John, I give all my estate, both real and personal, to my wife, Grace Coolidge."

Bo our correspondents with a good deal of tedious erudition explain the first six words were necessary be- cause they prove that iic had not forgotten his son's existence and turned over the estate w his wife in a moment of absentmindedneae. To be merely mentioned in a will, or in be cut oil.’ with a shilling, is a bar to upsetting the will. But the sup- ‘ crfluous words we had in mind were ' not the first six, But even that phrase could be shortened if Cool- idge were really miserly. He could have sai "Mindful oi’ my sOlI," for he had but one living son. The phrase “both real and personal" and the words "Grace Coolidge," we consider redundant. Surely all she's estate includes both real and per- souai property, and nobody ever would have raised the question that

gnu Coolidge was not his wile.

. FEBRUARY 4, 1933

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Justice In Ottawa

(Christian Science Monitor) For the first time in 64 years, the capital penalty was exacted in Oi- tmwaxeoently in the case of a. young Canadian convicted of murder in connection with a. robbery. Hearing this and knowing modem news- _ Duper technique as it has developed in the United Statav, an American Vislliliflea immediately the sensa- tional headlines that the Ottawa press must have placed over the numerous ‘ of reading mat ter devoted to complete descriptions of the hanging and of the history of the case. _

Thcrewere no sensational head- lines. ‘fliers were no photographs of the mufdezwr efling his last ‘M81. nor of his sobbing relatives, uoir of the fateful scaffold, iilir of the victim. No citizens of Ottawa were quoted on their opinions of the event. No morbid crowds gather- od about the Prison. Not one word 0110119 the case had been printed in the local press during the three months between the man's convic- tion and his execution,